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steakhouse - please help me choose

my wife and i will be in manhattan next weekend and are meeting friends from ct. for dinner on friday.

my friend suggested del frisco's because "it's the best place in the city to get a great steak." i nixxed his choice because i was there last time i was in town on business and want to try something new. it was good, i didn't think that it was "the best." (his alternate suggestion was tao, but the reviews are mediocre at best).

so it's going to be steak.

no tables available at peter luger's.

so i have searched previous chowhound winnowed my list down to:

strip housekeen'ssparks

i am leaning toward keen's (but strip house is close) but want to make sure. i would appreciate your opinions. thanx.

I dont think you can go wrong with either Strip House or Keens. Strip House is definitely a fun stylish environment, but Keens is by far the most under-rated steak house in the city. I love Keens and highly recommend it. Their muton chop is outstanding. But on the other hand, Strip House has these duck fat fried potatos that are out of this world.

At the end of the day, the madhouse atmosphere/chaotic service at Sparks makes it barely worth a trip. Strip house is a winner, but definately a very different vibe than Keans, which is much more Old School NYC than swank.